Old Irish

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin Abessālōn, alternative form of Abessālōm, from Koine Greek Ἀβεσσαλώμ (Abessalṓm), from Biblical Hebrew אֲבִישָׁלוֹם (ʾAḇîšālôm, literally father of peace).

Proper noun

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Abisolón m

  1. (biblical) Absalom
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 23b10
      Hó goistiu .i. do·bert goiste imma brágait fadesin ɔid·marb, húare nád ndigni Abisolón a chomairli.
      By a noose, i.e. he put a noose around his own neck so that it killed him, because Absalom did not follow his advice.
      (literally, “do his advice”)